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Re: NEWBIE: Memory Layout on AEB-1 Rev B



sorry in advance if this starts a new thread.

--- Jonathan Larmour <jlarmour@redhat.com> wrote:
[snip]
> >     __reserved_for_rom = ALIGN (0x1); . = __reserved_for_rom + 0x4000;
> 
> If you don't intend to use the GDB stubs for debugging, you could remove
> this. Also note that exception handlers will still have been set up by the
> GDB stub in ROM, and those handlers will use RAM in this area. So if you
> get any exceptions it will scribble in this area anyway. So obviously
> either don't get any exceptions, or supply new exception handlers in your
> app.
[snip]

If I were to try this, is it as easy as removing the line for this
block of ram from the .h, .mlt, and .ldi files and then re-build ecos?
I'd assume that the subsequent sections would then map down by 0x4000
in memory.

ke

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